Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.